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MITH considers itself a research center and an “applied think tank.” As a result, we have staffed our center largely based on practical skills. Our permanent staff is largely organized around our continuing, project-independent, needs. For example, until our very recent hire of a software architect, we had no permanent, full-time programmer as the particular language expertise we require may differ from project to project. We do, however, have a permanent web designer and business manager as these needs remain constant. Our associate director, Doug Reside, holds a degree in Computer Science as well as a Ph.D. in English and can move fairly easily across projects to design functional requirements, write grants, and lend a hand when extra coding is necessary. Likewise, our assistant director, Dave Lester has managed several large open source development projects and has a demonstrated ability to organize teams and provide expert software project management. Finally, Associate Director Matthew Kirschenbaum and Director Neil Fraistat’s work and prominence in the traditional academic disciplines help both to establish the validity and relevance of the center’s work to the University administration and to provide a point of interface between center and the larger academic community.

Associate Director (Faculty, English Department, half-time): Strategic vision and planning in consultation with other administrators; develops collaborations with partners inside and external to the University; oversees and conducts research in content domains; writes grant applications, pursues curriculum development, manages communications and public relations, supervises and advise some interns and student employees.Direct reports:

Associate Director (Staff): Writes grant applications, develops collaborations with partners inside and external to the University, advises and oversees Assistant Director’s management of the center’s technical work, oversees and conducts research in both technical and content domains.

Assistant Director (Staff): Manages day-to-day research, development, and outreach at MITH; supervises and collaborates with non-administrative staff and interns, including technical staff, work-study students, interns, and faculty fellows; leads technical research and development; writes grant applications, and manages technical work and deliverables through the life of a grant.Direct reports:

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It seems as though digital humanists are running into some of the same issues that academic librarians have experienced over the years. At some universities, they have faculty status while at others they are viewed as support staff. Since librarians work 12 months, there is not the same amount of time for research to generate scholarly publications, and this is an area that can be a barrier to tenure track status.

Seeking details on the nature of this work, given a group project where we are examining the factors of collaborative capacity in organizations. Our focus has been on government-business-nonprofit settings, but your work may be something we would want to summarize, given the explicitly “network of networks” and higher education focus.See the website above.Thanks, John Stephens